Success in management accounting: lessons from the activity-based costing/management experience

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-77

  Cinquini, Lino ^a   Mitchell, Falconer ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Evidence of success; Management accounting success

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949096209     PISSN: 18325912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18325910510635290     Document Type: Article

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